While the US has further increased the pressure by leaking information that sending tanks to Ukraine was only a matter of time, Britain, via Liz Truss, has pledged an additional 2.6 billion in aid to Zelensky.
146 bodies have been exhumed so far in Izioum. They are mainly civilians. Two children were also among the victims.
For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin has to face the growing criticism that is emerging from both the population and the administration in relation to this special operation that has been in great difficulty for some weeks.
And in the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, Russian delegates in occupied territory are asking the Kremlin to officially annex Luhansk and Donetsk, causing panic among the Moscow authorities with this request to speed up the referendum. Local authorities under pressure as they have just taken new measures to mobilize men, such as in the steel mill de Yenakiyeve.
Read more about this 209th day of war in Ukraine in our live commentary below:
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